Hi, I need advice as I'm running our of ideas. My 13yr old who before Feb was, according to his teachers in Yr8 said he was kind, helpful, well behaved a pleasure to teach but he would be difficult at home. Now it's switched his behaviour at home has improved he plays out with his friends on local field or football pitches, when its dark or weather too bad to play out he will go on his xbox and chat with his mates. Now I am getting a couple of messages a day or calls telling me he has had to be given another detention because of his behaviour, apparently he is disruptive and talks back to the teacher. Even when he gets a detention he skips half of them so next day he has an hour detention instead of 20mins. He was even walked out of a detention for refusing to take his coat off. I have tried asking him if there is a problem and he can talk to me and I want to help him. He says there isn't anything wrong it's just that the teachers are blaming him for other kids or the teachers are picking on him. He keeps promising me after our chats he will try and do better and behave more like this morning but during the day 1 received 3 messages saying he'd misbehaved and 1 saying how good he'd been. There is only the 2 of us no other family to turn to for help and I don't want to embarrass him by turning to friends as they are the parents of his school and teammates. He has even started talking back to the referee. I don't know what to do. I think the problem is at school whether something has happened or he's being bullied or he thinks it's funny to get into trouble, I think it's that because of a morning it's a nightmare to get him up and out he keeps saying he's unwell or it could be he likes his bed too much. I'm worried school will get social services involved or expel him. I am also epileptic and am to avoid too much stress. I'm at my wit's end I've tried grounding him and turning off the wifi so he can't play on his xbox, not letting him play for his team, but his friends want him to play because he is their best player and they are devastated when they lose. I love him to bits but I hate his recent behaviour and attitude but unless he opens up to me or someone I don't know how to help him fix it